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Sun and Microsoft Showcase WS-* Interoperability

Interop on the following WS-* specifications:

Quality of Service -- WS-Reliable Messaging, WS-Coordination, WS-Transactions
Security -- WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-Secure Conversation, WS-Security Policy
Metadata -- WSDL, XML Schema, WS-Policy, WS-Metadata Exchange
Messaging -- SOAP, WS-Addressing, Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM)

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Industry Demonstrates WS-Policy Interop

WS-Policy Interop Workshop was a resounding success!

Authors of the Web Services Policy specifications hosted a three day interop workshop from April 25th to 27th. This meeting was hosted by SAP at their Walldorf campus in Germany. The interop workshop was an open forum for Web Services Policy implementors to test round 3 security policy interop scenarios, run round 1 and 2 unit test cases and offer feedback.

There were 15 participants representing 7 compaines at the workshop: BEA Systems, IBM, Layer 7 Technologies, Microsoft, SAP, Sun and WSO2.

WS-Policy in the News

"Because of its importance to SOA and Web services, Kyle Young, program manager for connected systems at Microsoft, noted that WS-Policy has the support of vendors who are not authors, but are members of W3C." - SearchWebServices.com

"IBM, BEA, Others Submit SOA Web Services Proposal to W3C" - SOA Web Services News Desk

"While policy is important for any aspect of software or IT infrastructure, it is even more critical in SOAs because of the way that these environments support deployment of composite services on the fly." - SearchWebServices.com

"You need policy to have interoperability configuration and discoverable enforcement." - Developer

“Layer 7 Technologies, a leader in XML Security and Networking today announced successful Web Services Policy (WS-Policy) interoperability with leading Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) application and middleware vendors including SAP, IBM, BEA, Sun and Microsoft. WS-Policy is an emerging W3C standard for expressing the security, reliability and transactibility requirements of interacting Web services in an SOA.” - BUSINESSWIRE